In fact Ocatve was the first thing I tried, on Windows, but it wasn't quite the experience I'm looking for. I ran something like a = [ 1 2 3 ]; plot( a )

In fact Ocatve was the first thing I tried, on Windows, but it wasn't quite the experience I'm looking for. I ran something like a = [ 1 2 3 ]; plot( a ) On one machine it showed a figure window, then hung for like a minute and then showed the correct plot. On another machine it showed some exception in the command window, IIRC, but in any case it did not plot. Usually I'd investigate this further, report a bug and hope it would get fixed, or try to fix it myself and contribute, but this time I just didn't feel like it..